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#privacy

EU needs to find its backbone and tell the US president to take his National Security Strategy and shove it

The identities of French spies are among the Republic's most closely-guarded secrets. Revealing them is even a criminal offense. Yet, with just a little technical know-how, one can track down the home addresses of certain agents, and thereby discover their identities, daily routines and even those of their loved ones, all of which represent risks to their safety and that of their families and their agencies.

Retro, a friend-focused, photo-sharing app with roughly a million users, is adding a new feature that lets you time-travel through your old photo memories from your phone's Camera Roll. While the app today offers a way to share photos of what's happening during your week with a private group of friends, or create shared albums, this latest addition, dubbed "Rewind," is private to you - unless you choose to share the photos with others.

Privacy advocates have always argued that Google is an advertising company that just happens to build a browser. Most of us shrugged that off because, well, Chrome is fast, familiar, and hard to abandon. But Manifest V3 really does change the landscape. Google frames it as a technical upgrade for security and performance. Yet the underlying mechanics point to a different goal: reducing user control in ways that closely align with an ad-driven business model.

When you talk about kids and new cutting-edge technology that's not very well understood, the question is: How much are the kids being experimented on?

It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP). If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They're also proposing the collection of DNA.

"The business is changing, and I just started Instagramming them. It went from tons of people trying to get this photo to, I put it on there, and I'm not gonna get chased around as much," she said. "What I learned from somebody who is much more famous than me, is that the more you put the photos up, the lower the bounty is and the less harassment you get."

Traditionally, your browser treats cookies like a single, massive community bucket. If you visit Facebook, they drop a cookie in the bucket. If you then visit a completely unrelated tech site that uses Facebook's tracking pixels, Facebook can reach into that shared bucket, see the cookie they left there earlier, and recognize you. They now know you like those AirPods and link that data to your profile. Now, multiply this by thousands of data brokers, and you have the modern surveillance economy.

"Authoritarian" moves by Donald Trump's administration to ask travellers, including from Ireland, to hand over five years of social media history have been branded "a massive overreach" that would damage relations with the US.

The next time someone visits the US, customs may ask to see their passport, their Facebook feed, and all of their Instagram posts. The United States maintains a list of 42 countries whose citizens are allowed to enter without a visa, but visitors from those nations may soon have to provide five years' worth of their social media history in order to gain entry.

If you want a cheap gift that feels expensive, the Echo Spot is a great pick. The versatile smart display can handle dozens of everyday tasks, and right now it's back at its all-time low of $44.99 ($35 off) at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy. That actually beats its Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing and marks the first time it's dropped this low since Prime Day.

A stalkerware maker who was banned from the surveillance industry after a data breach that exposed the personal information of its customers, as well as the people they were spying on, will not be able to go back to selling the invasive software, according the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The FTC denied a request to cancel that ban made by Scott Zuckerman, the founder of consumer spyware company Support King and its subsidiaries SpyFone and OneClickMonitor.

When someone loses weight, it often becomes a public event. People notice, comment, and-almost reflexively-ask how. The question implies that whatever method they used is worth knowing, replicating, or admiring. It positions weight loss as an achievement, a moral victory, a signal of discipline or virtue. But what if it isn't? What if their weight loss came from illness, grief, stress, or depression? What if it involved a medication that finally brought balance to their body chemistry-or, conversely, an eating disorder or unhealthy behaviors?

The government surveils you every time you drive through San Jose, collecting a trove of highly revealing data that police search thousands of times per month without ever seeking a warrant. It's an unchecked police power, an end run around judicial oversight and a blatant privacy invasion. It's also a violation of the California Constitution. That's why we at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with ACLU of Northern California, have sued the city, its police chief and its mayor.

the Indian government is reviewing a proposal by the telecom industry to require smartphone companies to keep satellite location tracking enabled at all times for better tracking. The report states the Indian government, for years, has been concerned about its agencies not getting precise locations when legal requests are made to telecom operators during investigations, and that's because the telecom firms are limited to using cellular tower data.

There are two main components of your Discord Checkpoint 2025. The first is a recap of your usage and interactions on the platform. Here's some of what your Discord Checkpoint 2025 will show you: How many messages you sent How many minutes in voice chat you spent How many emojis you posted What other Discord users you spent the most time with The servers you used the most

Health data represents one of the most valuable types of personal data available to companies, whether this be for the training of AI (it is worth noting that the AI health care market is estimated to reach a value of around $187bn by 2030, the development of digital health technology (such as wearables, estimated to be valued at around $76bn by 2030)

Next is the ability to attach files in the new search bar for AI to translate, summarize, or explain. This includes support for PDFs and images. To attach a file, open the Ask AI interface, tap the "+" icon, and select a document or photo from your Android device. You can also click a picture with the device's camera and upload it directly.

"With the launch of Proton Sheets, we are not just closing the productivity gap - we are reclaiming data sovereignty for businesses and individuals alike," said Anant Vijay Singh, Head of Product at Proton Drive. "The reality today is that most spreadsheet tools come from Big Tech giants whose entire business models are built on exploiting user data. Now, with AI woven deeply into these platforms, the risks have escalated exponentially."

That's the conclusion we'd like to believe any sane person would likely draw, reading this week's absurd report from South Korea, where four people were arrested after allegedly hacking an astounding 120,000 separate commercial home video cameras stationed in houses and businesses. As if that level of breach isn't inherently icky enough, several of the suspects then reportedly used the hacked material to make and then sell sexually explicit exploitation videos of strangers to foreign-based web networks that illegally distribute hacked, pornographic camera footage.

My aunt turned 80 last weekend, and to celebrate, a bunch of us flew out to the West Coast to visit her. While planning the trip, I realized that where we were staying was just a short train ride from a fairly popular gay bathhouse I'd been curious about for a while. I figured the day after the party would be the perfect time to finally check it out.

Let's navigate this via your motherly empathy and intuition. If you suspect your daughter would be mortified were you to share your inter-sheets discovery, don't do it. Let her come to you. A cockring is small enough that it's not going to be a burden to store-it can go in a junk drawer in the guest room or, if you want to be so discreet so that no one else in your residence might casually see it when searching for a highlighter or AA battery,

Priyanka Gandhi of the Congress Party, a member of Parliament, said that Sanchar Saathi "is a snooping app... It's a very fine line between 'fraud is easy to report' and 'we can see everything that every citizen of India is doing on their phone.'" She called for an effective system to fight fraud, but said that cybersecurity shouldn't be "an excuse to go into every citizen's telephone."

Apple is not planning to comply with an order from the Indian government directing phone manufacturers to preload a state-backed cybersecurity app, according to . Industry sources tell Reuters that Apple plans to tell India's government that they don't comply with requests like this due to privacy and security concerns. However, Apple won't go to court or "take a public stand" over the order.

Children who arrive in the UK on small boats could be searched to check if they are concealing phone sim cards in their mouths under new Home Office rules. New measures will allow immigration enforcement officials to seize phones at the border if it is believed they contain useful intelligence about people-smugglers. Officers will have the power to make new arrivals remove an outer coat, jacket or gloves at UK ports to search for devices.

We will soon use your interactions with Meta AI to personalize the content and ads you see, including things like posts and reels.

When Cara Hunter, the Irish politician, looks back on the moment she found out she had been deepfaked, she says it is like watching a horror movie. The setting is her grandmother's rural home in the west of Tyrone on her 90th birthday, April 2022. Everyone was there, she says. I was sitting with all my closest family members and family friends when I got a notification through Facebook Messenger.

The problem: not everyone uses the same phone operating system. In my house, I have an iPhone and my wife has an Android. This means when I inevitably leave my phone in a hotel couch, she can't really help me find it. Sure, she could call my phone number, but I usually have my ringer off and Do Not Disturb enabled. (I'm annoying like that.)

In late September, the United Kingdom's Prime Minister Keir Starmer his government's plans to introduce a new digital ID scheme in the country to take effect before the end of the Parliament (no later than August 2029). The scheme will, " in proving people's identities by creating a virtual ID on personal devices with information like people's name, date of birth, nationality or residency status, and photo to verify their right to live and work in the country.